Walking through the University of Minnesota Insect Collection, curator Robin Thomson pulls a series of cases from one of dozens of shelves lining the storage facility. Opening it up, she pulls out a ...

The titan beetle (Titanus giganteus) may just be the insect equivalent of a giant, flawless diamond. The species has a ...

For the University of Arizona Insect Collection, several million specimens from the southwestern U.S. and around the world just aren’t enough. The department has received two grants totaling more than ...

A bored researcher, boxes of left-behind Husky homework and the painstakingly documented entomology specimens of a 1960s faculty member formed the chrysalis for the Michigan Technological University ...

When the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County shut down due to the pandemic in mid-March, Lisa Gonzalez headed home with the expectation that she would be back in a few weeks. But once it ...

More than a century ago, students and faculty at the University of Iowa collected insects from around Iowa and as far away as Fiji. Pinned on cards with tiny labels, more than 40,000 of those insects ...